Ania moving coil cartridge
The Ania was inspired by the success of the Apheta 2 and Aphelion MC
cartridges. Using the same exceptionally complex hand wound micro coil
found in the rest of the range, the Ania is housed in a unique PPS
highly rigid body, ensuring accurate construction and Rega's three point
fixing method ensuring optimum connection to the headshell and
automatic setting for overhang. The new body is protected by a CAD
designed, clear rigid cover to protect the internal fine wires, making
handling whilst fitting, safe and risk free.The Ania features a super
high-powered, neodymium magnet and a coil meticulously hand wound on to
an iron cross. This miniature assembly allows us greater freedom to
track the vinyl groove ensuring even more detail is extracted from the
vinyl.
All of these features combine to deliver a balanced and dynamic
performance that will engage you with your vinyl like never before.The
Ania is the perfect partner for the Planar 3, Planar 6 or RP8
turntables. Factory fitted options for some models are available.
Product Details
A unique design.
Rega’s Moving Coil cartridge design is unique in its approach to
achieving an ultra-low mass generator which is undamped (no tie wire)
using a unique rhomboid pivot for the cantilever powered by a purpose
designed, exclusive to Rega, Neodymium magnet system. This type of
design requires a zero-tolerance engineered cartridge body which is
Rega’s area of expertise and with the Apheta 2 and Aphelion products
these bodies are machined from one piece of the highest
quality aluminium. This is a difficult and expensive process requiring
all of Rega’s forty-four years of experience to achieve. In particular,
the “zero” tolerancing of the body is required in the alignment and
dimension of the pivot pad mounting hole and the magnet mechanism
mounting hole relationship.
When we decided to produce a Moving Coil cartridge at half the cost
of the Apheta 2, the special aluminium body could not be used, it was
simply too expensive. The solution lay in an unusual polymer/glass
combination called Polyphenylene Sulphide (PPS-Fortron). With 40% glass,
this material could be moulded and would solve the cost problem. The
special attributes of this material are its hardness and stability in
shape and dimension post moulding, both critical for the performance
of Ania. Now came the challenge. Rega designed and prototyped using SLA
systems in just a few months, proving the validity of the design
direction.
Now we had to design a production mould tool capable of extreme
accuracy and long life. PPS is a difficult polymer to mould and requires
special attention to how the mould tool operates. Couple this to an
almost unmouldable complex shape of the Ania body and a very
considerable challenge faced the Rega engineers and the toolmakers
chosen. The toolmakers are of the highest technical skill level, using
the most accurate Swiss EDM CNC machines, their regular customers being
the military and medical industries, routinely working down to a micron
(one thousandth of a millimetre).To achieve this intricate body shape
required the most complex high pressure injection mould tool
that Rega has ever designed. The tool has eight major parts, four of
which must move in perfect synchronicity with each other to achieve each
cartridge body. The design and manufacture of this “work of art” took
an entire year to produce and was made exclusively by the most senior
toolmaker requiring all his lifetime of artisanal experience.
Combine this special PPS body with its high specification stainless
steel inserts, a unique rhomboid pivot system, a tried and tested high
performance, diamond tipped elliptical stylus cantilever with low mass
moving coil generator assembly and you have new market leading
musicality, performance, speed, clarity, and detail as never before at
this price.
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